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Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Klaus is Professor for Communication
at the University of Salzburg. She is currently serving as the
chairperson of the Department and as director of the Division
Communication Theory and Media Systems.
She is a member of the Interdisciplinary Advisory Board Gender Studies
and vice-chair of the Salzburg Center of European Union Studies
(SCEUS). As an expert on Gender, Civil Society and the European Public
Sphere she
conducted various research projects on different aspects of gender and
media, financed among others by the DFG (German Research Society) and
the Austrian Public Service Broadcaster (ORF). She has made a
substantial
contribution to the development of public sphere theory. Prof. Dr.
Klaus was a guest lecturer at numerous universities and a research
fellow among others in the United States and Ireland.
Her most recent publications are Media Industry, Journalism Culture and
Communication Policies in Europe (2007), Das Gendering internationaler
Mediensysteme (2007), Kommunikationswissenschaftliche
Geschlechterforschung (2005), Cultural Citizenship (2004). For further
information see:
http://www.uni-salzburg.at/pls/portal/docs/1/561846.PDF

Mag. phil. Dr. disc. pol. Martina Thiele

University of Salzburg

Dr. Martina Thiele, M.A. is Assistant Professor for
Communication at the University of Salzburg, Department of
Communication and chair of the section “Media, Public Sphere and
Gender“ in the German Association of
Communication Science (DGPuK). She is an expert in Austrian and
International Media Systems and participated in the DFG-Project
„Socialization by Information Media: Youth and newspaper reading. Her
most recent book is Journalistic Controversies caused by Holocaust
Films (2001, 2nd edition in 2007), she published several articles on
the Austrian Media System in comparison to others. For further
information see:
http://www.uni-salzburg.at/pls/portal/docs/1/561565.PDF